I am already being called names over in Facebook by the Millennial Gun Whiners.

This is a real headline

SC lawmakers propose 7 percent gun fee for added security in schools

I think mine is more accurate.

With the General Assembly back in session beginning Jan. 8, we’re taking a look at some of the proposed legislation up for debate.

Two Democrats in the House of Representatives are proposing a new 7 percent fee to every gun sale in the state, with proceeds going towards school resource officers.

Rep. Wendy Brawley of District 70, and Rep. Ivory Thigpen of District 79 are behind this new proposal set to be discussed in the Ways and Means Committee. They tell WIS-TV that more than 600 schools across the state are operating without school resource officers- mainly due to a lack of funding.

It’s estimated that this proposed added gun fee will generate another $22 million in revenue each year, which Brawley and Thigpen say could help provide more safety in our schools.

They also say this is not anti-gun legislation, and are hoping to gain support on both sides of the aisle.

Yeah… bullshit.  This isn’t anti-gun legislation, it is anti gun owner legislation.

Cook County, Illinois has a $25 per gun tax.  That tax goes into a fund to repay Cook County hospitals for unpaid medical expenses accrued by uninsured gang members shot during crimes.

Seattle has a tax on guns and ammo which raised a paltry $93,000 to fund “gun violence research,” i.e., anti gun propaganda.

The Seattle tax had the side effect of causing the gun stores (those that sold primarily guns, and not general sporting goods stores) in the city limits to close down as people bought guns outside of the city.  Driving gun stores out of business through taxation was probably part of the Seattle plan all along.

These taxes have been considered a thumb in the eye to law abiding gun owners. There is no evidence that the guy who goes into Cabela’s to buy a new deer rifle and fills out a 4473 and passes a NICS check is going to increase the gun crime rate.  Making him pay for a the medical bills of a drug dealer or pay for anti-gun propaganda to be used against him is wrong.  The people that pay it resent it, and clearly gun owners try to buy guns outside of the counties that impose these taxes.

Now two South Carolina legislators want to do the same thing, state wide.  They want law abiding gun owners to pay for a problem they are not contributing to.

If the state needs more money for school safety, they can add a fraction of a percent to property taxes which already goes to school funding.

This just targets gun owners because these legislators do not like gun owners, not because of any moral culpability that law abiding gun owners have for school shootings.

Maybe some Republican legislator needs to propose a 7% tax on Xanex and Boxed Wine so that the moms who ignore their crazy kids’ red flags contribute to school security.  That’s at least a little more tangentially related to school shootings than some hunter’s new deer rifle.

I wish I could go all paranoid and say he is a fifth columnist infiltrated to sabotage the Gun Rights movement, but unfortunately I have seen too many idiots like him.

Some days, it gets difficult to even try to do anything for gun rights.

The following video should be educational for those who have not seen true violence. There is no outright display of uncontrolled rage by the attacker, just a determined and concentrated effort to inflict damage. Initially it looked like just another tussle and tumbling we are tired to see in YouTube videos, but it then turns reality-of-life ugly. Good bits begin at 1:30

The manhunt for a suspect wanted in a brazen beating near Union Square ended Sunday with his arrest just blocks away from where the crime occurred, according to San Francisco police.

Police identified 25-year-old Oakland resident Melton Earl Kelly as the suspect captured on video punching and stomping on a victim Friday near a crowded intersection at Cyril Magnin and Eddy streets. Police arrested Kelly at 7:19 a.m. Sunday on the 300 block of Ellis Street.

Later Sunday, Kelly was to be booked into the San Francisco County Jail on 11 felony charges, including attempted murder, robbery and mayhem, police said in a statement.

Suspect arrested in brutal San Francisco attack caught on video

Even the mugshot is informative: There is no regret, no repentance, no “Oh crap, I am in trouble.” He looks simply bored, like another day of the week outside rather than being booked for attempted murder. I would not be surprised if the city has previous booking photos of Mr. Kelly.

And we can debate the attitude of the onlookers, but it would be a waste of time: It is San Francisco, live and let live and get the shit beaten out of you, right?

(Found video over Wirecutter’s)

By the 18th century, Feudalism had effectively ended in Europe.  The very beginning of the industrial and agricultural revolution in England in the 1700’s as well as the social and political changes that came from the Age of Enlightenment made Feudalism obsolete.

No so much in Russia.  Russia was always seemed to lag behind Europe in social and technological advancements and the majority of Russian agriculture workers were still serfs in the 1800’s.

The first major reform in Russia was the Emancipation Reform of 1861, which officially ended serfdom under Tsar Alexander II.  Russian form workers were still not nearly as free as European farm workers, which led to unrest and an eventual peasants revolt, which was part of of the Russian Revolution in 1905.  That led to the Stolypin reforms which finally gave Russian peasants the ability to buy land, have private property rights, hire workers, and engage in some level of capitalism.

Some of the farmers who had been emancipated in 1861 were moderately successful at farming.  For the first time in Russian history, they were able to pass down their farms to their sons, who took advantage of the later reforms and  were able to amass a modest amount of wealth.  They may have owned a home that was more than a shack, had a small herd of cattle, owned a tractor, had a couple of hundred Rubles tucked away.

In 1929, this all fell apart.

The newly founded Soviet government decided that such successful farmers were an enemy of the people.  There were called Kulaks which means “tight fisted” as in stingy.  They were accused of hording the agricultural wealth of the Soviet people, and between 1929 and 1932, the process of dekulakiztion resulted in the the forcible relocation 1.8 million people and the deaths about 4 million.

I want this to really sink in.

A Russian farmer was essentially a slave in 1860, not much better off than a slave on an American plantation in the same year.  He owned nothing, and worked the land for his lord, being allowed to keep barely enough of the food he grew to feed himself.

That farmer was emancipated in 1861, and was allowed to own his land by a process of a 49 year debt bondage.  In 1906, the farmer’s son could borrow money to buy more land on a mortgage, maybe buy a tractor, and if he worked really hard pay that off loan and actually own something of value.  If that farmer was really hard working and very lucky, he could have been successful enough to have a plot of land large enough to hire a few people to work for him and maybe have some equipment or a mill or creamery to lease to other farmers.

All of this took place in the 68 years from 1861 to 1929.  The kulaks Lenin called “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine” were barely a generation or two away from slavery.  The kulak shot in the head by a Soviet solider was most likely the grandson of an emancipated Serf.

So enter the 116th of the United States of America.

Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wants to implement a lot of reforms.

A few social media ideas for public servants looking to build an audience:
– Endorse Single-Payer Medicare for All
– Hold Wall Street Accountable
– Make Min Wage = Living Wage
– Cancel Puerto Rican Debt
– End For-Profit Prisons & ICE Detention
– Fight for a #GreenNewDeal

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 2, 2019

The center of her proposed policy, one that is gaining traction with the Democrats is the Green New Deal.  She managed to get a select committee put together for it and they have released a draft proposal.

You can go through it, but it is both economically and technologically infeasible to the point of being impossible in any reasonable timeline.

One of the points her draft makes sounds exactly like what the Soviets promised, with a little environmentalism mixed in.

The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Plan (and the draft legislation) shall:

[P]rovide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one;

She is also starting to talk about reparations, a subject that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is bringing back up again.  The Democrats have already announced their intentions to increase the taxes on some Americans to raise the wages for other Americans.

The Democrats are drawing lines through people’s incomes to decided were morality lies.  They will tax the rich and those they decide who are undeserving of their money.

And it all sounds like the dekualization of America to me.

My great grandparents were mud farmers driven out of Poland by the Tsar and Prussia by the Kaiser.

Neither of my grandfathers has so much as a high school education.  Both were born during WWI and started working as soon as they could to help put bread on the table during the depression.  My maternal grandfather served on a Coast Guard ship as a cook, patrolling the eastern seaboard for U-Boats.  My paternal grandfather was drafted as an artillery forward observer.

After the war my maternal grandfather took his wartime earnings and bought a butcher shop in Philadelphia.  My paternal grandfather joined the New York Bagel Baker’s Union started a bakery.

My mother was a nurse, my father was a lawyer.  I’m an engineer.

For all intents and purposes, I’m little more than two generations away from serfdom.

I’m not unique in that, that is normal for Americans.  I know people in Alabama, who are white and are only a couple of generations removed from being share croppers and subsistence farmers.

When you look at what the Democrats decide is an immoral level of wealth, it’s the combined mid-career income of an engineer and a RN, or a CPA and a dental hygienist, or an MD and a stay-at-home mom.

A family takes a couple of generations to crawl out of the mud and amass enough wealth to buy a house, a couple of cars, go on vacation once a year, and to listen to the Democrats they are bloodsuckers, vampires, and plunderers of the people.

The socio-economic class in America that is made up of people who have gone to college to study something useful and are professionals who work for a living, are the new American Kulaks.  The make too much to be virtuous by Leftist standards but lack the wealth and power of the investment or inheritance class Leftist elite.

The Democrats sworn in yesterday and doing their first business today are promising pie in the sky and are going to pay for it on the backs Americas Kulaks.  The more things change, the more 2019 is looking like 1929.

Revises provisions relating to possession of firearms in student campus parking. (TEXT)

This is the same BS sleigh of hand as with SB7026 Armed Personnel part: You can have a gun in your vehicle in school property, unless the  School District says no and then you are flocked.  Right off the bat, you know Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade are going to say nopers.

Transfers of Firearms: Requires transfers of firearms when neither party is licensed dealer to be conducted through licensed dealer & requires processing by licensed dealer.  (Text)

Same old annoying bill. besides busting balls, it is a left-handed gun registration scheme.

It has never been about checking backgrounds, if it were the bill would simply allow the members to check with a Licensed Dealer and run a background check without having to log anything in the books.  No gun owner wants to sell a gun to a possible violent criminal and we would welcome having access (for a fee) to a quick and easy background check.

PS: Did you know you can get updates via email on any bill you want?  Look in the House and Senate sites for “tracking” in the main menu and register. After that is just clicking on the tracking button for the individual bills,